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Recent Examples of clop
Noun
The clop of the horse's hooves is a kind of muted drumroll.—Scott Simon, NPR, 19 July 2025 Grenadiers and Scots guards marched in two lines, following the rhythmic clop of the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment.—Mark Landler, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2022 From the stillness in the Cathedral Spires to the hypnotic clop of heavy bison hooves, Custer State Park never disappoints.—Web Behrens, chicagotribune.com, 9 Sep. 2021 Horses clip-clop languidly across Union Avenue to reach the racetrack, stopping traffic and stealing the hearts of horse enthusiasts who admire their grace and power.—New York Times, 27 Aug. 2021 Horses carrying Mexican American cowboys known as charros clip-clop along a network of park trails.—Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2021 Combining two familiar genres — hip-hop meets clip-clop — creates a completely fresh and astonishingly effective synthesis.—Kyle Smith, National Review, 27 Apr. 2021
The tiny Greek island, only 90 minutes by ferry from Athens, has been renowned for generations as a dreamy, car-free outpost where the only traffic sound is the clip-clop of donkey hooves and the most stressful decision is which white wine to choose with dinner.
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Tony Perrottet,
Travel + Leisure,
13 May 2025
There’s something special about salty ocean breezes paired with the clip-clop of horse hooves.
Time crunches led the team of four — including production assistant Chaandmon Croft — to streamline the pilot process so other departments could quickly work with material amassed between takes that could start and restart from various points in a song.
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Abbey White,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Sep. 2025
The marathon meeting evoked memories of a past era of contentious county budgets in the wake of the 2008 housing crash, when collapsed real estate values caused a severe revenue crunch for Miami-Dade.
From the moment that Jerry Goldsmith’s piano tinkles caress the opening bars of his score while stars float past the frame, anyone with a soul knows that this is not your average IP cash-in.
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David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
20 Aug. 2025
The water fountains are trickling; wind chimes tinkle and shimmer in the breeze, and the store’s seemingly endless lines of indoor and outdoor décor are available to celebrate each season and occasion.
What to Know While there were no visible camera flashes during daylight hours, Harry's arrival at court sparked the audible rattle of many cameras taking pictures at the same time.
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Jack Royston,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
Baby rattlesnakes don’t have rattles, and adult snakes’ rattles occasionally break off, according to the National Park Service.
The music then switches to the original Sex and the City opening and closing jingles as the credits begin to roll.
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EW.com,
EW.com,
15 Aug. 2025
Bob Sirott and John Records Landecker, who held down afternoon and evening shifts respectively for much of the 1970s on WLS, are reuniting on the air at WGN for a three-hour tour of anecdotes, DJ interviews, vintage jingles and listener calls.
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